![]() ![]() Once on the inside of the livity or Rastafari way of life, I quickly realised that although I was resisting the mainstream unconsciousness of the society, the society was pushing back with race and class-loaded stereotypes and exclusions. Embracing Rastafari resulted in a change of my appearance and also a self-re-naming as resistance to the enduring shackling of African identity to European monikers. ![]() I sighted up or became aware of Rastafari in my early twenties, which provided a self-identity model to counteract the negative stereotypes of African people present in the Jamaican popular culture.
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